Access Device Sensors and Platform APIs from Blazor in .NET MAUI

Under my video where I show the Blazor templates for .NET MAUI apps questions came up about how to access the device platform APIs and sensors. In this video I will show you how to use Microsoft.Maui.Essentials to get the users location and show that in a Blazor app.

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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:14 - Inspect End Result
00:43 - Outline Sample App
02:34 - Access Device Location with Blazor
05:42 - Initialize Essentials and Permissions
08:36 - Run Sample App
09:33 - Outro

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[lemoncrazedcamel]

Why are you always killing it Gerald? Another super interesting and useful video!

[manishbisen]

You are doing awesome work & going great.That why so many people following you & like your stuffs.That the proof.
Keep it up.

[andrewbeeman]

I’ve waited years for this. Thank God. Blazor UI is so much less work than Xamarin but it always missed out on native functionalities.

[Neha-lhok]

great tutorials!!! can you make a video for camera access as well

[pascalpereira]

Hey Gerald... awesome tutorials!!! Quick question - do you think that the future is to have a single code base in Blazor across all platforms using Maui as the delivery mechanism? So you have all components built in Blazor served up through Web/OS/Devices?

[UzairAli]

It would be cool if you make a series on creating enterprise level app on Blazor Web Assembly including all best practices and commonly used design patterns and then maybe later make a MAUI app for that as well.

[krugovi]

Great information and video Gerald. Does accessing the camera work in a similar way. Is it possible to read the QR code at this stage of development ... or what can be accessed on the device now?

[kipchickensout]

Hey, currently I'm working with WPF, but I feel like MAUI with Blazor could be a nice way to do cross-platform UIs that also support CSS, but my questions are can I with Blazor easily create or access files or stuff like that? Like I don't know the limitations of it and I've read somewhere that someone can't even enumerate files in a specific directory. Or can I do everything that I could do with a normal .NET Console application?

[brendonpixiom]

Hey Gerald - nice quick tutorial; with native sensor access, Maui /w Blazor is really much easier to quickly build and maintain. What's your feeling on using this in production prior to the official release? I was a little disappointed /w with Blazor (in Maui) not making it to .NET6 officially for another 6 months, but my tests so far have been incredibly positive, even with various third party controls.

[jordig]

great video thx. It would be great if you could do a maui-blazor push notification with firebase like you did for native android and apple ;-)

[Martin-kjod]

Thanks, It is great to have blazor app running in MAUI. But what happens when an error occurs ? Blazor typically shows message to reload the app. This is something I do not want in my native app. This takes me to the next question: will things like AppCenter work in this scenario ?

[minline]

Havent checked out MAUI Blazor yet. So is this like an alternative to XAML and runs native? Or ... Some webview?

[davidorazine]

Gerald, will this work with the Blazor web view approach?

[mihaimyh]

Are there any performance issues of using MAUI Blazor instead of the MAUI XAML?

[mihaimyh]

MVVM with Maui and Blazor will be nice.

[brentbruce]

Great video. Please do an update to this video demonstrating accessing a file on the device, in Allow and Deny permissions scenarios.

[jwj]

Hey Gerald, could you make a video regarding analytical tools for Xamarin Forms? tools such as navigation tracking or click frequency for views

[mozamilahmadafghan]

Can we separate @code from html part in blazor?

[naunihalsidhu]

Gerald, Can you also show how to display multiple markers on the Map(Like real estate search apps) ? and is possible next one for reading QR Code and displaying QRCode in App ?

[michael_azzer]

Hello 👋 Gerald
Thank you for your useful 👍videos
I have a question sorry not related to this video but relate to xamarin and .net maui in general
The question is:
Xamarin.forms will be .net MAUI,
What about xamarin.android and xamarin.ios
Is .net Maui will include equivalents
Thank 😊 you man